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Daisies (1966) – Věra Chytilová
It was against my rules to include films in this series that I had not seen. However, on the basis of this superb excerpt and some very warm recommendations of fellow bloggers, here is Daisies, a 1966 Czech film by director Věra Chytilová. It’s included in Film as a Subversive Art.
If everything’s going bad … so … we’re going … bad … as … well!
Previous “World Cinema Classics” and in the Wiki format here.
‘I’m going to shoot the perfect film. No plot. Only victims.’ —Paul Müller in Eugénie de Sade by Jess Franco.
Illustration by Charles Bell, sourced here.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) by Wes Anderson
When the kids ask if the split is their fault, he replies: “Obviously we made certain sacrifices as a result of having children, but no. Lord, no.”
Tip of the hat to Cactus.
Previous “World Cinema Classics“
Monkeys as Judges of Art, 1889
Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (August 23, 1840, Prague – November 24, 1915, München) was a Prague-born Austrian painter. His themes were parapsychology and mysticism. He surrounded himself and with monkeys and painted them often, sometimes portraying them as human.
See also: Monkeys in art
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Something Else Press
Perhaps Spoerri‘s fascination with displacing the horizontal with the vertical began when he created the first “tableau-piège” in 1960, “The Resting Place of the Delbeck Family”, by gluing a number of dinner-table objects on a board [1] and then hanging it on a wall. Or it could have begun with “Dylaby” in 1962 [2], in which he turned the orientation of a whole room clockwise. Objects as well as actors were put in a horizontal position whereas the visitors stayed vertically according to gravity. Being the only ones that had this orientation they felt wrong however.
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Can dialectics break bricks? (1973) – René Viénet
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“Maintenant je sais” (1954) by Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin sings that now he knows he’ll never know. Like in South Park episode 1101 (#154), the “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” episode, popularly known as the “Nigger guy” episode to which the conclusion was “I don’t get it” and Luc Tuymans current photo exposition in Antwerp with the same title.
Is this an original poster to the Panic Movement?
The Panic Movement included Roland Topor, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal, Olivier O. Olivier, Christian Zeimert, Diego Bardon, Sam Szafran, Abel Ogier, Michel Parré, Roman Cieślewicz, Jérôme Savary and Jacques Sternberg.
Dessins panique (1965) – Roland Topor
Some more Topor.
Dead Time on Dailymotion.
About the inhabitants of planet earth the film says: “they are provided with four limbs, two to advance or to recoil, the inferior ones, and two to kill, the superior ones. ”
Tip of the hat to the Topor-et-moi blog.
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